More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division. The news follows another delay with reports of a staff revolt over the way that management has handled the development of the operating system.
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24.3.2006 Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 Vista SP1 Gives Extenders a Speed Boost
Word is that Vista SP1 is giving Linksys Extenders a bit of a speed boost, especially in the transition and animation field.
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25.3.2008 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.
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22.12.2007 Systembooster 2.1 - Speed up Shutdown, Restart & Logoff Process of Windows 7, Vista & XP
Adding too many applications on Startup may lead to slow restart and shutdown process in Windows and for non technical users it very difficult to find out & fix the reason of slow restart.
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19.5.2009 How to Reduce Windows Animation Speed in Windows Vista
When you minimize, maximize or close any windows/applications, the animation speed to perform these tasks is a default setting and you can’t really control it.
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10.2.2009 Full Speed v2.7
USB And CD Protection all in one give you the comlete conrol on your pc and important data to protect from steeling or illegal copys of your importan data and also USB protection protect your system and data too form unothorized useing.
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8.6.2007 Need For Speed ProStreet Preview
Electronic Arts made the big announcement just months ago and Need For Speed ProStreet is already shaping up into one of the best, if not THE best racing game ever developed.
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25.10.2007 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Need for Speed Shift Screenshots
Eight Need For Speed: Shift Screenshots Know much about Need for Speed: Shift? Neither do we! EA's released eight new screenshots from the game that we can gaze longingly at, though.
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5.3.2009 Need For Speed ProStreet Demo Out. Download Here!
Well what do you know, if it isn't the Need for Speed ProStreet Demo that you can download and play right now on your PC.
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4.11.2007 Best Need for Speed Underground 2 videos and download demo
Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed? Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.
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Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company Siemens said Wednesday that it had set a new network speed record, achieving a speed of 107 gigabits -- the equivalent of roughly two DVDs worth of data -- per second, two and a half times faster than the previous record.
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21.12.2006 How to Speed up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7
Windows 7 has much better aero transparency glass effect along with taskbar thumbnail preview. Taskbar Thumbnail Preview displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Many users have started loving taskbar thumbnail preview of windows 7.
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9.2.2009 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome.
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12.3.2009 Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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19.3.2009 Intel Plans to Speed-Up Desktop Quad-Core Chips’ Bus
Intel Corp. may be planning to once again speed-up its quad-core offering next quarter and introduce a chip with four processing engines with 1333MHz processor system bus (PSB), a rather unexpected, but a very logical move of the world’s largest maker of x86 microprocessors.
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14.4.2007 BootRacer 1.0 - BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter
BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter. Race your Windows boot using BootRacer and look at the results.
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1.2.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009Developers target XP over Vista by wide margin
Just 8% of North American developers are writing Vista apps; about half for XP, survey says
Stymied by a lack of user
interest in Microsoft Vista, many North American developers are still not targeting the new operating system when writing new applications, according
to a survey released today. The survey did find that some growth in Vista development will come in 2009.
Only 8% of the 380
developers surveyed by Evans Data Corp. in April are writing applications for Vista, while 49% are still writing applications primarily for the
predecessor Windows version, XP. In addition, 11% said applications are mostly for Windows 2003, while 9% are focused on Linux-based apps.
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14.05.2008Panasonic ships World's Thinnest Blu-ray Disc Drives
Panasonic has begun shipping samples of the world's thinnest (that’s 9.5 mm to be exact) internal Blu-ray Disc drives to personal computer
manufacturers. The new sample 9.5 mm high BD drives were accomplished by combining Panasonic’s own technologies such as the low-profile, 2-lens
actuator and spherical aberration compensation mechanism and an optimized optical design for the CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser. Even with its thin
profile, the new BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs. All Blu-Ray discs have a
maximum reading speed of 2x. Single layer discs are written at 2x while double layer discs have a max writing speed of 1x.
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30.12.2007Vista's ReadyBoost flash drives lack significant boost
Windows Vista's Windows
ReadyBoost sounds too good to
be true, and based on our
extensive lab tests, it is.
The technology promises to let
you speed up Windows by
plugging an inexpensive USB
flash drive into your PC. But
we found that while ReadyBoost
may speed up Vista a tiny bit,
it can also slow it down in
some instances.
The
premise is this: Although
writing data to and reading it
from a flash drive is, in most
cases, slower than writing and
reading to a hard drive, if
the data is scattered randomly
in small chunks, then flash
drives are faster. Vista's
ReadyBoost is supposed to use
that one speed advantage to
create a faster,
flash-drive-based cache of one
of Windows' major bottlenecks
-- the swap file on your hard
drive that most Windows
operations use. So ReadyBoost
should theoretically speed up
certain frequently performed
Windows tasks such as loading
programs.
The
technology works with only the
fastest flash drives -- those
capable of 3.5MB/sec.
throughput for 4KB random
reads, and 2.5MB/sec. speeds
for 512KB random writes. For
this article, the PC World
Test Center and I looked at
three ReadyBoost-capable
drives: Kingston's 1GB
DataTraveler ReadyFlash, Lexar
Media's 4GB JumpDrive
Lightning and Ritek's Ridata
1GB Twister EZ Drive.
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18.05.2007Create Your Own DVDs in Windows Vista
Columnist Galan Bridgman
explores much-anticipated
capability of Windows
Vista—writing and
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28.12.2006LaCie Brings the Speed!
LaCie has just unveiled an external Blu-Ray burner that can write at 4x speed. This write speed is twice as fast as the previous model. This drive
will also double as a CDR and DVD burner, writing at 32x and 16x.
Unfortunately, with double the speed comes a hefty price increase at
roughly $900. This is a steep price considering other drives can be bought starting at $200.
The LaCie’s new model designed
by Neil Poulton (the award-winning Scottish designer) will at least look pretty on your computer desk.
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30.05.2008Mtron unveils faster flash-based disk drives
South Korea's Mtron Co. Ltd. is adding to its line-up of already speedy solid-state disk drives with new models that offer faster reading and writing
of data.
The new drives offer a maximum sustained read speed of 120MBps (megabytes per second) and a maximum write speed of
90MBps compared to 100MBps and 80MBps respectively on current models, said Ahn Ji-young, a spokesman for the company.
Mtron is
unveiling the new models at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week.
The speed jumps are important because they should directly
translate to an increase in performance in the system in which they are used. When a computer needs to store or retrieve data there is often a slight
delay while the information is transferred to or from the disk. By increasing the speeds the delay is shortened. ..
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30.08.2007Panasonic Speeds Up Writing To Blu-ray Discs
Panasonic has introduced a
write-once Blu-ray disc with a
4x writing speed, faster than
any other high-definition
disc, available in 25GB and
50GB (dual layer). The
consumer electronics company
plans to release the former
this month and the larger disc
in September. The discs have a
maximum data transfer speed of
144Mb/s, which means 1GB of
data can be written onto the
disc in a minute. Panasonic,
which is the brand name of
Matsushita Electric
Industrial, says the new discs
have new technology that
reduces the error rate to
one-tenth of a conventional
disc. Fewer errors mean higher
reliability and better quality
recording.
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04.07.2007Web browsers get a 12% speed boost in Windows 7 over Vista
If you've been testing the final Windows 7 Release Candidate on your own physical platforms, and you wonder what's giving you that feeling that
it's just a bit peppier, a tad zippier, it's not an illusion. Betanews tests all this week, concluding today, comparing all the major stable
release and development Windows-based Web browsers, running on exactly the same physical computer with fresh Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 RC
partitions, confirmed what our eyes and gut feelings were telling us: On average, most browsers ran 11.9% faster in Windows 7 than on the same machine
running Vista SP2, with most speed gains falling right around that mark.
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29.05.2009Breakthrough in Blue Lasers Yields 10X Write Times
Nichia Corporation of Japan
has announced a new
blue-violet laser that can
fill up a 54GB double-layer
disc at more than 10X record
speed, compared to typical 2x
and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format
disc recorders. In other
words, instead of a 50 minute
write-time at 2x, the future
holds a 10 minute write-time
at 10x. According to blue
laser expert Steven DenBaars,
the key to faster write times
lies in the power of the
laser. Faster burn times allow
the disc to be rotated at a
higher speed. A 2X device can
sustain a write speed of only
8.99 Mbps, while a 10X laser
disc recorder can achieve a
writing velocity of 44.9
Mbps.
Nichia's new
blue-violet semiconductor
laser diodes can reportedly
operate at 320 mW
(milliwatts), while the
average current consumer grade
blue laser devices are in the
range of 20mW. " Writing
speed is totally dictated by
the output power. The more
power you have, the faster you
can spin the disk ,"
DenBaars said. The UCSB team,
led by blue laser inventor and
former Nichia researcher Shuji
Nakamura, recently
demonstrated the world's
first nonpolar blue-violet
laser diodes. The technology,
which is still two to four
years away, could eventually
produce blue laser diodes that
operate in the range of 500
mW.
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25.02.2007Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company
Siemens said Wednesday that it
had set a new network speed
record, achieving a speed of
107 gigabits -the equivalent
of roughly two DVDs worth of
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21.12.2006Firefox 3.1 could catch up to Safari 4 in beta speed duel
With software continuing to get bulkier and less memory-efficient, the need for speed is re-emerging, and Mozilla could very well deliver.
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05.03.2009Samsung and Microsoft work to speed up SSDs
A few weeks ago SanDisk slated Windows Vista for not being optimized for SSD (Solid State Drive) storage hardware.
"As soon as you
get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash
memory solid-state disk”. Said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari
SandDisk’s solution is to develop a new
controller technology which will overcome these limitations but could take upto a year to reach the market.
Now according to
PCworld Samsung has been in talks with Microsoft to increase the performance of SSDs using Vista
and other MS OSes.
The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Wang, flash marketing
manager at Sun.
Standard magnetic hard drives have a 512kb cluster size where as SSDs only have a 4kb cluster size. Samsung hopes to work
with Microsoft to boost SSD performance on Windows by discovering optimal packet sizes for data transfers and the best ways to read and write files,
for example.
SSDs have been hailed as the future storage medium for PC’s and internet connected devices, citing speed, power use and
durability.
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07.08.2008How Microsoft Can Save Vista And Windows Server 2008
Mitchell Ashley: Over the weekend my son Phil and I built a computer and a server for the test lab I use in my business (building computers is also a
hobby we share). One of the machines was a Vista box, the other was a server which I'm testing the Windows Server 2008 RC-1 Hyper-V software that
came out last Thursday. I'm sure I'll be writing about the Hyper-V RC-1 software in several upcoming blog posts.
It caused me
to think about 2008 and to look back at the 2007 ups and downs of Vista since its introduction earlier in the year. The Vista SP1 service pack is
coming in February 2008, while at the same time Vista is being compared to Windows ME, another Windows operating system Microsoft "didn't get
right".
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18.12.2007London to have satellites that monitor your speed
In a trial that can only be described as Big Brotherly, London is going is going to start trials of attempting to stop speeders from space. The
basic idea works around that the vehicles are equipped with information about speed limits for public roads. A satellite will monitor the speed of
the car vs. the pre-installed data to determine if the car is speeding. If the car is found to be speeding then one of two things can happen. The car
can either be slowed down by the satellite (voluntary mode) or the car can alert you that you need to slow down but won't actually adjust the
vehicles speed (advisory mode).
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11.05.2009Get ReadyBoost Speed on XP with eBoostr
Speed up your computer with a spare USB thumb drive with eBoostr, an XP-only application that brings the benefits of Windows Vista's
ReadyBoost feature to XP. The
app can work with up to four devices, up to 4GB on each, and its smart-cache feature gives speed boosts to your more frequently used apps and data.
eBoostr could be perfect for XP users who want a little extra memory but don't want to
install RAM themselves, or even for
laptop users who've filled every free slot. eBoostr comes as a free trial version, which gives you four hours of functionality each time you boot up,
or costs $29 for the full version.
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06.02.2008Overview Series: Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and
responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the systems usability. This guide looks
at the following areas of performance improvement:
- Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you
use it.
- Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
- Making configuration changes that help a computer to start
faster.
- Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
- Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop
problems before they get too big.
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29.07.2008Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Why would someone want to
install a client OS from a
thumb drive instead of a
DVDROM or over the network?
One reason: Performance.
Installing Windows
Vista from a high speed USB
flash drive is in my
experience the easiest &
fastest way to complete a
Windows Vista install. This is
much faster than using a DVD,
gigabit ethernet, or possibly
even some external USB 2.0
hard drives, due to
differences in access speed &
transfer rate. To put this
into perspective, y'know how
installing Windows on a
Virtual PC virtual machine
from an .ISO CD image is
really, really, really fast?
Imagine something
roughly just as fast, except
for doing installations of the
OS on to actual
workstations.
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01.03.2007New online student writing app, Eduify, based on Windows Azure
Microsoft will try to make the case for Windows Azure at its Mix conference in Las Vegas this week by showing some of the stuff people are building
with the preview of the cloud-computing system. Exhibit No. 1: Eduify, an online writing application for students...
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18.03.2009Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
Ed Bott: I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till
its public debut next week before writing about it. But after upgrading a few machines here and
doing some tests, I changed my mind. If Microsoft’s decision to
ditch the WGA kill switch in
SP1 didn’t convince you, would you be interested in a 300% increase in network file transfer speeds?
Forget the reports you
might have read about
SP1 resulting in no performance boost. That story was based on a
silly artificial benchmark involving scripting of Office applications. Back here in the real world, where gigabit network connections are now
commonplace, you’ll see at least one huge improvement when transferring files over network connections.
In its original
release, Vista had some design problems with its networking stack, resulting in slow file transfers, especially when connecting to computers running
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Home Server (all three of these products share a great deal of their code base, including core networking
components). In Vista SP1, file transfer speeds are dramatically improved. In this post, I’ll describe what I saw.
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06.12.2007Windows Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit
With a comprehensive demo script, sample content, and a preconfigured installation including user accounts and applications, you have everything you
need to demo with Windows Vista with virtually no effort.
NOTE: Installing the Demo Readiness Toolkit will completely erase all
data on your hard drive and create a Windows Vista Demonstration PC. Be sure to use a machine that can be re-formatted. Do you demonstrate Windows
Vista features? Or maybe you demo 3rd party applications, services, solutions and/or hardware with Windows Vista? With the Demo Readiness Toolkit,
your workload just got a whole lot lighter! With a comprehensive demo script, sample content, and a preconfigured installation including user accounts
and applications, you have everything you need to demo with Windows Vista with virtually no effort. No more searching for the right software, creating
user accounts, tweaking settings, or writing product/feature messaging - now you can focus on your pitch, NOT on building a demo environment.
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